Originally posted by TehJarVu:
u said u paid $139 right? sounds like a very good price...
original is how much?
i dunno.

"The Tungsten T, introduced in November 2002 and known during development as the M550, was the test balloon for both Palm OS 5 and the entire Tungsten line. The Tungsten T was designed by Palm engineers based in Arlington Heights, IL. It has 16 megs of memory, a Texas Instruments OMAP (ARM) 144 MHz processor, a built-in microphone, and runs Palm OS 5.0. It is 4.0 inches (102 mm) tall, 4.8 inches (121 mm) tall with the slider extended, by 3.0 inches (78 mm) wide by 0.6 inches (15 mm) thick, and weighs 5.6 ounces (146 g). It has a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, and a single tiny speaker. (It is otherwise a standard Tungsten; see above.) It sets itself apart from other PDAs physically by having a sliding lower portion; the bottom third of the casing can be slid up and down to cover or reveal the touch-sensitive Graffiti writing area. At introduction, it was US$499.
Many of the features in the Tungsten T are Palm firsts, in response to Sony's successful Clie series. It was the first Palm PDA to use a version of Palm OS 5 and an ARM processor, which meant that it had the software and processing power for high-quality real-time video playback and mp3 playback. It was the first Palm PDA to have a 320 x 320 resolution screen, what is known as "hi-res" in enthusiast circles. It was Palm's first PDA with built-in Bluetooth. It was the first Palm PDA with a microphone, for recording voice memos.
The slider was the real innovation and what made it a critical success, though. When open, the Tungsten T looked like a normal slate-shaped PDA, but the bottom portion, with the five-way controller and four buttons, could slide closed, covering up the Graffiti writing area. This made it much smaller for keeping in a pocket. Palm's reasoning behind the slider was people spend more time viewing data rather than entering data. Thus, they chose to hide the data entry medium while not in use to make a more compact device."